Biology Vocabulary (for your notebook's Index)

BIOLOGY INDEX - FALL 2008-9

Last Updated: 10.27.08

To be added as we go.. Allocate 6-8 pages in your notebook at the end or in the beginning (after the table of contents) to the glossary. Divide the pages to letters before you begin.

- Each word goes along with PAGES in the notebook (or textbook) where it is refered to or defined. This is NOT a glossary with definitions!

A

Amino Acids

Activation Energy

Active Site

Active Transport

B

Biomolecules

Benedict Reagent / reaction

C

Control (of an experiment) - negative and positive

Catalyst

Concentration Gradient

Channels (of ions)

Cell Structure - plant versus animal

Cell Structure - Prokaryotes versus Eukaryotes

Chloroplast

Chlorophyll

Cytoplasm

Cytoskeleton

Calvin Cycle

D

Dependent Variable

Diffusion

"Dark" Reactions (of photosynthesis)

E

Enzymes

Endocytosis

Exocytosis

Eukaryotes (versus prokaryotes)

Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) - Rough (RER) and Smooth (SER)

Elodea plant

Electron Transport Chain

F

Facilitated Diffusion

Fermentation

G

Glucose

Gradient (of concentrations)

Golgi Apparatus

Glycolysis

H

Hypothesis

Hydrophilic

Hydrophobic

Hypotonic / Hypo-osmotic

Hypertonic / Hyperosmotic

I

Independent Variable

Iodine reaction (with starch)

Isotonic

J

K

Krebs Cycle

L

Lipids

Lock and Key Model (of enzyme action)

"Light" Reactions (of photosynthesis)

M

Monomer

Membrane (Biological)

Microscope (Procedure of use; workign with Magnification and size)

Mitochondria

Metabolism

N

Nucleotides

NADPH

O

Osmosis

P

Polymer

Polypeptide

Proteins

Polysaccharides

Product (of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction)

Polarity (Polar and non-polar substances)

Passive Transport

Protein Channels

Pumps

Phagocytosis (form of endocytosis)

Plasmolysis

Prokaryotes (versus Eukaryotes)

Photosynthesis

Pigment

Q

R

Reaction (chemical)

Ribosomes

Respiration

S

Subunit

Substrate

Semi-Permeable Membrane

Secretion (form of exocytosis)

T

Theory

U

V

Variables, Dependent and Independent

Vesicular Transport (from RER to Golgi to cell membrane)

Vacuole (plant cell)

W

Water (structure and properties)

X

Y

Z

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